KATIE PETERS

EDUCATION
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
PhD in Philosophy Expected May 2025
• Dissertation Title: “A Feminist Analysis of Extremism: The Case of Far-Right Women”
• Committee: Dr. Heather Battaly, Dr. Tracy Llanera, Dr. Lynne Tirrell, Dr. Michael Lynch, Dr.
Christopher Vials
Certificate in American Studies (In Progress)

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

Master of Arts in Philosophy May 2020

Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA

Master of Science in College Counseling and Student Development May 2013
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Bachelor of Science in International Business May 2011

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Feminist Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Intellectual Humility, Virtue Epistemology

AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Responsibility, American Studies

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS IN PREPARATION

• “Not My Fault: Far Right Women and the Exculpatory Narratives of Misogyny and Infantilization.”
Forthcoming in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, Special Edition on Moral Responsibility.
• “Book Review: Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right.” Forthcoming in Philosophy
and Global Affairs
• “Intellectual Humility without Open-Mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views.” With Cody Turner
and Heather Battaly. Submitted
• “A Restorative Justice Vice-Charging (RJVC) Model: Preserving a form of vice-charging within vice
epistemology.” In-progress
• “’They must shout from the rooftops’: Extremism and the militant enforcement of truth.” In-progress

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Research Assistant, Humility in Inquiry 2023-2025
Arizona State University and the Templeton Foundation
2024-2025 Philosophy Research Assistant for a Templeton Foundation Grant: Humility in Inquiry
(https://humilityininquiry.com/) “Humble Inquiry in the Practices of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in
Rwanda and Mexico: Measurement and Evaluation.” Team: Heather Battaly (UConn), Don Davis (Georgia
State), Robin Greely (UConn), Josh Hook (North Texas), Aaron McLaughlin (Georgia State), Lynne Tirrell
(UConn), and Daryl Van Tongeren (Hope College).

Research Assistant, Applied Research on Intellectual Humility 2022-2025

University of Connecticut and the Templeton Foundation
2022-2023 Philosophy Research Assistant for a Templeton Foundation Grant: “Applied Research on Intellectual
Humility: A Request for Proposals.” Principal Investigators: Heather Battaly (UConn), Don Davis (Georgia
State), Josh Hook (North Texas), Daryl Can Tongeren (Hope College). Research involves investigating the
current state of research on Intellectual Humility, both within Philosophy and Psychology—identifying and
summarizing the most important and most relevant research for proposal writers.
 Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Fellowship Summer 2022
University of Connecticut Fellowship awarded for projects relating to Gender Identity.
“The Mutual Construction of Religion, Women’s Rights, and KKK Propaganda: Bishop Alma Bridwell White.”

PEER-REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS
Poster Presentation, Eastern APA
“Liberatory Virtue and Women’s Hate Group Exit.” Accepted January 2024

Speaker, The Religious Origins of White Supremacy – Conference at Syracuse University

“The Mutual Construction of Religion, Women’s Rights, and KKK Propaganda:
Bishop Alma Bridwell White” Accepted December 2023

Speaker, Extreme Belief and Responsibility – Workshop at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

“Out-group arrogance and in-group servility in far-right American women.” June 2023

Speaker, Graduate Conference on Philosophy of Education – Fordham University

“Intrinsic Motivation and the Virtue of Curiosity.” February 2020

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Speaker, New Directions in Virtue and Vice Epistemology – University of Nottingham
With Heather Battaly and Cody Turner.
“Open-Mindedness and Intellectual Humility in Conversation with Extremists.” September 2023

Speaker, Vice Squad at the University of Connecticut

“A Restorative Justice Vice-Charging Model.” November 2022

TEACHING
Instructor of Record Fall 2023
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Summer 2021, 2022, 2023
• Course: PHIL 1104, Philosophy and Social Ethics
• Instructor of Record for a full 3-credit course in the Philosophy Department at the University of
Connecticut. Includes course design and syllabus development, as well as all teaching and grading.

Teaching Assistant August 2020-May 2022

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
• Courses: PHIL 1102 Non-Western Philosophy, PHIL 1104 Philosophy and Social Ethics
• Teaching Assistant for four sections of 20 students each. Responsible for teaching an hour discussion per
section, including content creation and delivery to complement the course, all student grading and
evaluation, and maintenance of Blackboard Course site.

DOCTORAL SEMINARS TAKEN

• Completed in Philosophy: Politics, Extremism, & Conversion; Race in the Formation of Human Sciences;
Philosophy of Language; Virtue/Vice Epistemology; Liberatory Virtue Epistemology; Genocide; Political
Truth; Aristotle; Logic; Proseminar. Current Course: Feminist Philosophy
• Completed in American Studies: Cultures of Political Reaction; Gendered-Racial Mythologies of Policing &
Crime. Current Course: Black Feminist Theory and Politics